Honorary Degree Recipients

J. Howard Stokes	May 13, 1972
William Herman Patterson	May 13, 1973
John Carl West (Speaker)	May 13, 1973
Robert Duncan Bass	May 11, 1974
Hugh F. Rankin (Speaker)	May 11, 1974
M. Maceo Nance Jr.	May 10, 1975
Patrick Chesley Smith	May 10, 1975
Gordon Williams Blackwell (Speaker)	May 15, 1976
Edith Mitchell Dabbs	May 14, 1977
Matthew James Perry Jr. (Speaker)	May 14, 1977
Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum	May 14, 1977
James B. Edwards	May 13, 1978
Theodore Sanders Stern	May 13, 1978
Margaret M. Bryant	May 12, 1979
James Woodrow Lewis (Speaker)	May 12, 1979
Helen Joanne Harrar (Speaker)	May 10, 1980
William S. Hoole	May 10, 1980
John G. Wellman	May 9, 1981
Hubert Vernon Manning	May 9, 1981
James A. Morris (Speaker)	May 8, 1982
Dan T. Carter (Speaker)	May 14, 1983
Julian Lorin Mason Jr.	May 14, 1983
John Charles Lindsay	Dec. 22, 1983
William Thomas Putnam	Dec. 22, 1983
Ronald E. Carrier	April 7, 1984
James Alton Rogers	April 7, 1984
Strom Thurmond	April 7, 1984
Earle E. Morris Jr. (Speaker)	May 12, 1984
John Bruce Pitner (Speaker)	Dec. 18, 1984
Charles Brown MacDonald (Speaker)	May 7, 1985
Bernard Shaw (Speaker)	Dec. 16, 1985
Charles Alex Harvin III	Dec. 16, 1985
David Bomar Smith	May 7, 1986
William Reed Howard	Dec. 18, 1986
Walter Douglas Smith (Speaker)	Dec. 18, 1986
Fred Cleon Fore	May 6, 1987
James Alexander Grimsley Jr.	May 6, 1987
Larry Artope Jackson	May 6, 1987
David Walker Harwell	Dec. 15, 1987
Hugh K. Leatherman (Speaker)	Dec. 15, 1987
Thomas Travis Medlock	Dec. 15, 1987
T. Boone Pickens Jr. (Speaker)	May 5, 1988
Charles Moss Duke Jr. (Speaker)	May 5, 1990
Fred C. Perry Jr.	July 1, 1990
David N. Thomas	July 1. 1990
Sherwood H. Smith Jr.	Sept. 7, 1990
Marcia Curtis (Speaker)	Dec. 15, 1990
Fitz-John Creighton McMaster (Speaker)	May 4, 1991
Charles A. Horner (Speaker)	Dec. 21, 1991
Catherine White Ingold (Speaker)	May 9, 1992
Phillip N. Truluck (Speaker)	Dec. 19, 1992
L. Glenn Orr Jr. (Speaker)	Dec. 18, 1993
James C. Hooks Jr.	May 7, 1994
Nathaniel W. Rosenfeld	May 7, 1994
Adele B. Kassab	Dec. 18, 1999
John Kassab	Dec. 18, 1999
Jean Hoefer Toal (Speaker)	Dec. 18, 1999
L. Morgan Martin (Speaker)	May 6, 2000
Christopher James Yahnis	May 6, 2000
Edward Eli Saleeby Sr.	Dec. 16, 2000
John Drummond (Speaker)	Dec. 16, 2000
Ashpy Parnell Lowrimore	Dec. 16, 2000
Ernest A. Finney Jr.	May 5, 2001
John Yancey McGill	May 5, 2001
David H. Wilkins (Speaker)	May 5, 2001
Glenn F. McConnell (Speaker)	Dec. 15, 2001
C. Edward Floyd	Dec. 15, 2001
Thomas G. Keegan	Dec. 15, 2001
Leroy Davis Sr.	May 4, 2002
Robert W. Harrell Jr. (Speaker)	May 4, 2002
Douglas Jennings Jr.	May 4, 2002
Archie Lee Chandler	Dec. 14, 2002
Matthew James Perry Jr. (Speaker)	Dec. 14, 2002
W.C. Stanton	Dec. 14, 2002
Inez M. Tenenbaum (Speaker)	May 10, 2003
John H. Waller Jr.	May 10, 2003
Marshall Clement Sanford Jr. (Speaker)	Dec. 13, 2003
Kurt G. Beck	Dec. 13, 2003
Marva A. Smalls (Speaker)	May 8, 2004
Sompong Kraikit	May 8, 2004
Charlene Wages	May 8, 2004

Distinguished Service Award Recipients

1970	Peter D. Hyman	Fall Convocation
		Aug. 25, 1974
1971	Richard P. Moses	Founders Hall Dedication
		June 29, 1975
1972	John W. Baker	Founders Hall Dedication
		June 29, 1975
1973	James A. Morris	Fall Commencement
		Dec. 20, 1976
1974	Amelia Mellichamp Wallace	Fall Convocation
		Aug. 28, 1977
1978	William Hayden Blackwell	Fall Commencement
		Dec. 21, 1978
1979	Bertha Zeman Baumrind	Fall Commencement
		Dec. 21, 1979
1980	Hugh Coleman Bailey	Fall Commencement
		Dec. 19, 1980
1982	J. Mitchell Reames	Summer Commencement
		Aug. 13, 1982
1988	John William (Billy) McLeod	Fall Commencement
		Dec. 17, 1988
1989	William A. McInnis	Fall Commencement
		Dec. 16, 1989
1990	John W. Wilkinson Jr.	Fall Commencement
		Dec. 15, 1990
1992	Hugh K. Leatherman Sr.	Spring Commencement
		May 9, 1992

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